Current Events and Issues
What's going on and how you can get involved. PEC conducts in-depth analysis of local issues relating the area's natural and community resources.
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November 10, 2008. PEC Press Release.
August 12, 2008. PEC Press Release.
The PEC is working with other environmental organizations to ensure a more unified effort to protect the natural beauty of Rappahannock County.
RappFLOW a local, grassroots watershed group, has been very busy with its pilot study on the Upper Thornton River.
1,115 acres were conserved in 2007, bringing the grand total to over 26,000 acres of privately conserved land.
Norfolk Southern has plans to nearly double train traffic on the Piedmont rail line—from fourteen trains a day to approximately twenty-six. Find out more.